Installation instructions for the ThinkPad 390

Specific installation notes for the ThinkPad 390, 390E and 390X.

General Notes

Although more conventional methods may work, on a 390 with no working floppy or CD-ROM Linux was successfully installed on this machine by putting the harddrive an another laptop (a T21) installing on it there normally, and then swapping the hard drive back in, without any special fussing.

External Sources

ThinkPad 390

• ALSA 1.0.8 on a ThinkPad 390
• Red Hat 5.2 on a ThinkPad 390

ThinkPad 390E

• Craig Kulesas Linux (Redhat) on a ThinkPad 390E pages
• Allin Cottrells Linux on a ThinkPad 390E page
• Patrick Reas Mandrake 10.1 on a ThinkPad 390E page
• Adam Spiers' Linux on the IBM ThinkPad 390E page

ThinkPad 390X

• IBM ThinkPad 390X and Ubuntu 4.10
• IBM ThinkPad 390X and Ubuntu 5.04
• IBM ThinkPad 390X and Fedora Core 3